Browse named entries from historical surveys, archaeological registers and official damage assessments. These are source records, not a count of unique destroyed temples. Several entries may concern the same place; one entry may describe a group. Each preserves its source and the work still needed.
How to read this catalogue
Official assessments describe reported physical damage. Archaeological remains often have no known loss date or destroyer. Historical compilations include claims about later buildings and reused material; those claims await independent checks. Dates on later monuments are not treated as temple destruction dates. Earthquake losses remain separate from intentional acts.
Annex 8, PDF pages 82–84 of the joint monitoring mission report (published 2016): 155 numbered entries plus an unnumbered Mahadev entry. The PDF text layer was checked to correct misaligned scraped rows. Palaces and support structures remain context, not temples. Condition is the July 2015 assessment, not the current condition. Individual identities, duplicate components and locations still require review.
Annex 8, PDF pages 82–84 of the joint monitoring mission report (published 2016): 155 numbered entries plus an unnumbered Mahadev entry. The PDF text layer was checked to correct misaligned scraped rows. Palaces and support structures remain context, not temples. Condition is the July 2015 assessment, not the current condition. Individual identities, duplicate components and locations still require review.
Annex 8, PDF pages 82–84 of the joint monitoring mission report (published 2016): 155 numbered entries plus an unnumbered Mahadev entry. The PDF text layer was checked to correct misaligned scraped rows. Palaces and support structures remain context, not temples. Condition is the July 2015 assessment, not the current condition. Individual identities, duplicate components and locations still require review.
Annex 8, PDF pages 82–84 of the joint monitoring mission report (published 2016): 155 numbered entries plus an unnumbered Mahadev entry. The PDF text layer was checked to correct misaligned scraped rows. Palaces and support structures remain context, not temples. Condition is the July 2015 assessment, not the current condition. Individual identities, duplicate components and locations still require review.
Annex 8, PDF pages 82–84 of the joint monitoring mission report (published 2016): 155 numbered entries plus an unnumbered Mahadev entry. The PDF text layer was checked to correct misaligned scraped rows. Palaces and support structures remain context, not temples. Condition is the July 2015 assessment, not the current condition. Individual identities, duplicate components and locations still require review.
Annex 8, PDF pages 82–84 of the joint monitoring mission report (published 2016): 155 numbered entries plus an unnumbered Mahadev entry. The PDF text layer was checked to correct misaligned scraped rows. Palaces and support structures remain context, not temples. Condition is the July 2015 assessment, not the current condition. Individual identities, duplicate components and locations still require review.
Annex 8, PDF pages 82–84 of the joint monitoring mission report (published 2016): 155 numbered entries plus an unnumbered Mahadev entry. The PDF text layer was checked to correct misaligned scraped rows. Palaces and support structures remain context, not temples. Condition is the July 2015 assessment, not the current condition. Individual identities, duplicate components and locations still require review.
Annex 8, PDF pages 82–84 of the joint monitoring mission report (published 2016): 155 numbered entries plus an unnumbered Mahadev entry. The PDF text layer was checked to correct misaligned scraped rows. Palaces and support structures remain context, not temples. Condition is the July 2015 assessment, not the current condition. Individual identities, duplicate components and locations still require review.
Annex 8, PDF pages 82–84 of the joint monitoring mission report (published 2016): 155 numbered entries plus an unnumbered Mahadev entry. The PDF text layer was checked to correct misaligned scraped rows. Palaces and support structures remain context, not temples. Condition is the July 2015 assessment, not the current condition. Individual identities, duplicate components and locations still require review.
Record: nepal-doa-inventory-f28a2843d0eb
Inventories consulted
The full source bodies remain in the research cache. This public catalogue contains an index of factual fields and source locators. It is incomplete, and the source families have different coverage and evidentiary limits.
Sita Ram Goel: regional survey, volume I, chapter 10 · 1,870 records
Advocacy compilation. Entries concern alleged earlier sacred sites, conversion or reused material, often identified by a later monument. The original temple, loss date and responsibility may be unspecified. Dates beside later monuments must not be read as temple destruction dates. Claims require independent verification; group entries are not expanded into invented temples.
These entries are listed in this inventory. Their original editions are not all assessed.
History of Aurangzeb, Calcutta, 1925-52. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Religious Policy of the Mughal Emperors, Bombay, 1962. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report 1925-26. Pp. 129-30. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. 129. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. l28. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1907-08, p. 113. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., Pp. 114. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. 114-15. Technical details have been omitted and emphasis added. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. 116. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. 120. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. 126. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. 61. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1907-08, Pp. 47, to 72. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1903-04, p. 86. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1902-3, p. 52. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1921-22, p. 83. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. 84. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1902-03, p. 56. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1933-34, Pp. 36-37. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1902-03, Pp. 16-17. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1993-4, Pp. 31-32. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1902-03, Pp. 17-18. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1903-04, p. 43. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. 63. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1904-05, p. 24. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1929-30, p. 29. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., 1928-29, Pp. 167-68. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Robert Sewell, A Forgotten Empire, New Delhi Reprint, 1962, Pp. 199-200. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Archaeological Survey of India, Volume I : Four Reports Made During the Years 1862-63-64-65, Varanasi Reprint, 1972, Pp. 440-41. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ratan Pribhdas Hingorani, Sites Index to A.S.I. Circle Reports New Delhi 1978, Pp. 17-262. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
S.A.A. Rizvi, History of Sufism in India, Volume 1, New Delhi, 1978, P. 189. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ghulam Abdul Qadir Nazir, Bahr-i-Azam or Travels of Azam Shah Nawwab Walajah, 1823, Madras, 1960, p. 128. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. 64. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ibid., p. 128. · Listed by Goel; underlying edition not yet assessed
Archaeological Survey of India: centrally protected monuments register · 141 records
Only sacred-site rows explicitly describing ruins, remains, missing fabric or damage are selected. Protection alone is not evidence of destruction. This register generally does not date losses or identify a responsible actor. Historic administrative labels are preserved.
Accessed 2026-09-28 · Archaeological inventoryNepal Department of Archaeology: damage list, 30 July 2015 · 156 records
Annex 8, PDF pages 82–84 of the joint monitoring mission report (published 2016): 155 numbered entries plus an unnumbered Mahadev entry. The PDF text layer was checked to correct misaligned scraped rows. Palaces and support structures remain context, not temples. Condition is the July 2015 assessment, not the current condition. Individual identities, duplicate components and locations still require review.
Accessed 2026-09-28 · Official damage assessmentRichard M. Eaton: Instances of Temple Desecration, Frontline, 22 December 2000 · 80 records
Eighty selected episodes, not eighty unique temples and not a total for all history. Several rows identify towns or regions rather than named buildings. Attribution is Eaton’s; underlying numbered works are a separate follow-up task. Source-era geographic labels and disputed dates are retained. PDF text extraction was corrected using the original table layout.
These entries are listed in this inventory. Their original editions are not all assessed.
Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Epigraphia Indica, Arabic & Persian Supplement · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Annual Report of Indian Epigraphy · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Indian Antiquary · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Jahangir, Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, tr. A. Rogers, (Delhi, 1968), v. 1 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Firishta, Tarikh-i Firishta tr. J. Briggs, History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Calcutta, 1971), 4 vols. · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Kanbo, `Amal-i Salih (text: Lahore, 1967), v. 2 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
A. Butterworth and V.V. Chetty. A Collection of the Inscriptions on Copper- Plates & Stones in the Nellore District (Madras, 1905), v. 3 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Khafi Khan, Khafi Khan’s History of `Alamgir, tr. S.M. Haq (Karachi, 1975) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
A. Cunningham, Four Reports Made during 1862-65 (Varanasi, 1972) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
S.N. Sinha, Subah of Allahabad under the Great Mughals (New Delhi, 1974) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Saqi Must`ad Khan, Maasir-i `Alamgiri, tr. J. Sarkar (Calcutta, 1947) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Saqi Must`ad Khan, Maasir-i `Alamgiri (text: Calcutta, 1871) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Nizamuddin Ahmad, Tabaqat-i Akbari, tr. B. De (Calcutta, 1973), 3 vols. · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Ishwardas Nagar, Futuhat-i `Alamgiri, tr. T. Ahmad (Delhi, 1978) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Surendranath Sen, ed. & tr., Siva Chhatrapati (Calcutta, 1920), v.1 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
P. Sreenivasachar, ed., Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of H.E.M. the Nizam’s Dominions, pt. 2 (Hyderabad, 1940) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Shah Nawaz Khan, Maathir-ul-Umara, tr. H. Beveridge (Patna, 1979), v. 1 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Z.A. Desai, Published Muslim Inscriptions of Rajasthan (Jaipur, 1971) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
G. Roerich, tr., Biography of Dharmaswamin (Patna, 1959) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Minhaj-i Siraj, Tabakat-i Nasiri, tr. H. Raverty (New Delhi, 1970), v. 1 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Chattopadhyaya, D., ed., Taranatha’s History of Buddhism in India (Calcutta, 1980) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Hasan Nizami, Taj al-ma`athir, in Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 2 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Amir Khusrau, Miftah al-futuh, in Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 3 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Amir Khusrau, Khaza’in al-futuh, in Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 3 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Shams-i Siraj, Tarikh-i Firuz Shahi, in Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 3 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Zia al-Din Barani, Tarikh-i Firuz Shahi, Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 3 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Khwajah Ni`mat Allah, Tarikh-i Khan-Jahani wa makhzan-i-Afghani (text: Dacca, 1960), v. 1 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Sikandar bin Muhammad, Mirat-i Sikandari, in E.C. Bayley, Local Muhammadan Dynasties: Gujarat, ed. N Singh (repr. New Delhi, 1970) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Azad al-Husaini, Nau-Bahar-i Murshid Quli Khani, tr., Jadu Nath Sarkar, Bengal Nawabs (1952, repr. Calcutta, 1985) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Abd al-Hamid Lahori, Badshah-nama, in Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 7 · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
South Indian Inscriptions (New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
George Michell, “City as Cosmogram,” South Asian Studies 8 (1992) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Jonaraja, Rajatarangini, ed. S.L. Sadhu, trans. J.C. Dutt (repr. New Delhi, 1993) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, tr., Waqi`at-e-Mushtaqui of Shaikh Rizq Ullah Mushtaqui (New Delhi, 1993) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Jagadish Narayan Sarkar, Life of Mir Jumla (Calcutta, 1952) · Listed by Eaton; underlying edition not yet assessed
Bangladesh 1989 incident report: translation reproduced in Goel, volume I appendix · 42 records
Translation attributed to the Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council. The translated report was read; its original Bengali edition and independent corroboration remain unexamined. Named shrines are leads, not adjudicated events. Source-era district names and uncertain localities are preserved. Unnamed regional totals are not multiplied into temples.
